St Stephan

The church St. Stephan is a Catholic church in Baden in Lower Austria. The professional name is Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan. The present constructing started out in Gothic style in the 15th century. It became made over Baroque inside the 17th century, and an strive made to restore Gothic capabilities from 1880. The church has a extraordinary organ, performed by Mozart and probable additionally Beethoven. Mozart's motet Ave verum corpus become premiered in St. Stephan in 1791.

The church is a registered monument and an lively parish church. The gift building become began c. 1400. A choir in Gothic fashion turned into built on the muse of a Romanesque apsis. The nave changed into built within the 2nd third of the 15th century, the usage of the older walls. At the identical time, the main steeple became built. Some epitaphs from the Renaissance were installed at columns inside the church. The onion dome turned into delivered in 1697. As the church become badly broken throughout Ottoman wars, its interior became modified to Baroque style, installing several altars.